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Infrared and visible image fusion, as a hot topic in image processing and image enhancement, aims to produce fused images retaining the detail texture information in visible images and the thermal radiation information in infrared images. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu

Generative Adversarial Networks have surprising ability for generating sharp and realistic images, though they are known to suffer from the so-called mode collapse problem. In this paper, we propose a new GAN variant called Mixture Density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Werner Zellinger , Gerhard Widmer

Image fusion plays a vital role in medical imaging. Image fusion aims to integrate complementary as well as redundant information from multiple modalities into a single fused image without distortion or loss of information. In this research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 S. Kavitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

Multi-Focus Image Fusion (MFIF) is a promising image enhancement technique to obtain all-in-focus images meeting visual needs and it is a precondition of other computer vision tasks. One of the research trends of MFIF is to avoid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yicheng Wang , Shuang Xu , Junmin Liu , Zixiang Zhao , Chunxia Zhang , Jiangshe Zhang

Face recognition in the infrared (IR) band has become an important supplement to visible light face recognition due to its advantages of independent background light, strong penetration, ability of imaging under harsh environments such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Zhicheng Cao , Jiaxuan Zhang , Liaojun Pang

Since the advent of generative adversarial networks (GANs), various loss functions have been developed and combined to constitute the overall training objective function, in order to improve model performance or for specific learning tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Jingwen Su , Hujun Yin

Synthesizing high-quality realistic images from text descriptions is a challenging task. Existing text-to-image Generative Adversarial Networks generally employ a stacked architecture as the backbone yet still remain three flaws. First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ming Tao , Hao Tang , Fei Wu , Xiao-Yuan Jing , Bing-Kun Bao , Changsheng Xu

Integrating visible and infrared images into one high-quality image, also known as visible and infrared image fusion, is a challenging yet critical task for many downstream vision tasks. Most existing works utilize pretrained deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ming Chen , Yuxuan Cheng , Xinwei He , Xinyue Wang , Yan Aze , Jinhai Xiang

In the context of Earth observation, change detection boils down to comparing images acquired at different times by sensors of possibly different spatial and/or spectral resolutions or different modalities (e.g., optical or radar). Even…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Jin-Ju Wang , Nicolas Dobigeon , Marie Chabert , Ding-Cheng Wang , Ting-Zhu Huang , Jie Huang

Generating images via the generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted much attention recently. However, most of the existing GAN-based methods can only produce low-resolution images of limited quality. Directly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Qinfeng Shi , Mingkui Tan

Image Fusion, a technique which combines complimentary information from different images of the same scene so that the fused image is more suitable for segmentation, feature extraction, object recognition and Human Visual System. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-04 R. Balasubramanian , Gaurav Bhatnagar

We introduce EffiFusion-GAN (Efficient Fusion Generative Adversarial Network), a lightweight yet powerful model for speech enhancement. The model integrates depthwise separable convolutions within a multi-scale block to capture diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bin Wen , Tien-Ping Tan

Image fusion technology is widely used to fuse the complementary information between multi-source remote sensing images. Inspired by the frontier of deep learning, this paper first proposes a heterogeneous-integrated framework based on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Menghui Jiang , Huanfeng Shen , Jie Li , Liangpei Zhang

Diffusion models are emerging as powerful solutions for generating high-fidelity and diverse images, often surpassing GANs under many circumstances. However, their slow inference speed hinders their potential for real-time applications. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Luan Thanh Trinh , Tomoki Hamagami

Early wildfire detection is of paramount importance to avoid as much damage as possible to the environment, properties, and lives. Deep Learning (DL) models that can leverage both visible and infrared information have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 J. F. Ciprián-Sánchez , G. Ochoa-Ruiz , M. Gonzalez-Mendoza , L. Rossi

Image inversion is a fundamental task in generative models, aiming to map images back to their latent representations to enable downstream applications such as editing, restoration, and style transfer. This paper provides a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yinan Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Yali Bi , Xiaobin Hu , Teng Hu , Zhucun Xue , Ran Yi , Yong Liu , Ying Tai

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most powerful generative models, but always require a large and balanced dataset to train. Traditional GANs are not applicable to generate minority-class images in a highly imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Gaofeng Huang , Amir H. Jafari

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have many potential medical imaging applications. Due to the limited memory of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), most current 3D GAN models are trained on low-resolution medical images, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mahshid Shiri , Alessandro Bruno , Daniele Loiacono

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to combine complementary information from both modalities to provide a more comprehensive scene understanding. However, due to the significant differences between the two modalities, preserving key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jian Xu , Xin He

Image fusion is to reduce uncertainty and minimize redundancy in the output while maximizing relevant information from two or more images of a scene into a single composite image that is more informative and is more suitable for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Srinivasa Rao Dammavalam , Seetha Maddala , M. H. M. Krishna Prasad